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Two Bangladeshi journalists — a husband-wife duo — were Friday night found murdered at their home in Dhaka, police said Saturday. Meherun Runi was a reporter for ATN Bangla while her husband Sagor Sarwar worked for the Maasranga TV channel as a news editor, and was also correspondent for the Bangla service of German media group Deutsche Welle. Dhaka Metropolitan [...]
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda Friday won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year. He was honoured for a photograph taken by him on Oct 15 that shows a Yemeni woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a clash in Yemen. The picture was taken inside a mosque used as a field hospital during clashes in the Yemeni [...]
The lone Indian contestant in the World Press Photo Contest has won a honorary prize in the Spot News category in Amsterdam. Salil Bera, who works for The Week magazine here, was the only Indian among 5,247 contestants from 124 different countries to get the prize. In its 55th year, the annual World Press Photo Contest is recognized as the [...]
The Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA) has urged the new authorities in the Maldives to respect the right of journalists to go about their work without fear of intimidation and in a safe and respectful atmosphere. “We expect nothing less from a Commonwealth member country that has undertaken to uphold Commonwealth values, especially as they relate to human rights and freedom [...]
A TV anchor in US state of Colorado had to be rushed to the hospital and undergo surgery after a dog on her show bit her in the face during a live segment. Max, an 85-pound Argentine Mastiff, sunk its teeth into Kyle Dyer’s face when she bent down to pet him during a morning show segment on KUSA-TV, the [...]
Yahoo! India and Ananda Bazar Patrika (ABP) Wednesday announced a partnership to deliver premium digital content in Bengali to the Indian Internet audience. The co-branded property bengali.yahoo.com will leverage the combined editorial strengths of ABP and Yahoo! India, a company statement said. Bengali content is the latest in language offerings from Yahoo! in India after Hindi, Tamil and Marathi. It [...]
“When our dear minister tells us there won’t be any loadshedding from tomorrow, we’re very, very suspicious,” said a Pakistani daily after Water and Power Minister Naveed Qamar said outages would stop overnight. Calling the power crisis the biggest problem for the average Pakistani, an editorial in the News International said mockingly: “The minister for water and power has spoken.” [...]
A former militiaman was sentenced to 24 years in prison for his role in the murder of journalist Alvaro Alonso Escobar, who was gunned down a decade ago in a coastal town in northern Colombia, authorities said Monday. Edgar Ariel Cordoba Trujillo was also ordered to pay a fine equivalent to $467,950. The sentence and fine were handed down to [...]
A number of local people “secretly” working for the BBC Farsi-language service have been arrested in Iran, the Mehr news agency reported. A source told Mehr that a number of “deceived” locals who were tasked with collecting news and information in Iran for the BBC have been arrested by security forces. The people received “huge amount of money” from the [...]
Why is Facebook becoming more and more popular? Connectivity and accessibility are the biggest drawing cards, say users. Facebook also finds India equally indispensable. According to the Facebook data analyst, Inside Facebook Gold’s 2011 data, India was the third biggest Facebook market after US and Indonesia, at 34.6 million users. And the growth rate of Indian users is at 162.4 [...]
With over 38,500 followers in just two weeks, the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) is now looking forward to addressing problems of common people on the increasingly popular microblogging site Twitter and is also exploring the possibility of getting on to Facebook, official sources said Monday. A small office will soon be set up in the PMO to effectively handle communications [...]
Myanmar will draft a media law with help from the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco), the official media reported Saturday. The information ministry is drafting the law in accordance with international and regional norms, Xinhua quoted the daily New Light of Myanmar as saying. Both sides will hold a discussion on the proposed law that guarantee press freedom, [...]
Following is the chronology of events leading to the Supreme Court order cancelling 122 telecom licenses given out during the tenure of former communications minister A. Raja Nov 29, 2008: Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy meets Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking sanction to prosecute Raja under the Prevention of Corruption Act May 4, 2009: Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) receives complaints [...]
Following are the salient features of the Indian telecom sector which was jolted Thursday by the Supreme Court order cancelling 122 telecom licenses given out during A. Raja’s tenure as the communication minister: – Total subscribers (wireless and fixed-line) in December: 926.53 million – One of fastest growing markets in the world – Total players: 15 – Dominant players: Bharti [...]
Most websites advertising statins for sale contain rather sketchy information relevant to safe use of the medicine and side-effects, reveals a study. The study led by researcher David Brown, professor School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences, University of Portsmouth, simulated a customer search and evaluation of 184 retrieved sites using evaluation tools focusing on quality and safe medicine use. Results [...]
Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi feel the media should not play the role of a judge — because it can hurt a person’s image. “We don’t have any problem with the truth. But if you (media) create something and want us to believe that a snake is a rope because that’s your breaking [...]
Social network Facebook has made compulsory its Timeline feature through which all of a user’s photographs and wall posts would be seen by friends on their homepage. The feature had been voluntary till now and Facebook has given all of its 800 million users a seven-day period to delete content before Timeline goes online, The Sun reported. Timeline makes everything [...]
The Tamil Nadu government Monday filed a defamation petition against Tamil bi-weekly Nakkheeran editor R.R. Gopal for publishing an article defaming Chief Minister J.Jayalalithaa. A defamation case against N.Ram, former editor-in-chief of The Hindu and the newspaper’s correspondent B.Kolappan has also been filed for reproducing Nakkheeran’s report in the daily. The petitions were filed by the Chennai public prosecutor before [...]
The US Congress has indefinitely postponed debate on two disputed anti-piracy bills, two days after protest blackouts by hundreds of websites including online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. Senate majority leader Harry Reid Friday postponed a planned vote on the Protect IP Act (PIPA). “In light of recent events, I have decided to postpone Tuesday’s vote on the PROTECT IP Act,” Reid wrote [...]
Dozens of celebrities and politicians have settled damages claims over the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, the Telegraph reported Thursday. Actor Jude Law, politician Lord Prescott, Shaun Russell, whose wife and daughter were killed in Kent in 1996, and Sara Payne, the mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah, are also among 36 claimants who have reached settlements. Details of some [...]
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